The bis-alkoxide [(DEAMP)2Ni] (1, DEAMP = 1-(diethylamino)-2-methylpropan-2-olate) was found to react with trace amounts of lithium bromide to afford the bis-LiBr adduct 2, in which the oxygens of the DEAMP ligand coordinate to lithium to form a chiral-at-metal complex. This new complex is five-coordinate at nickel, and contains nickel and oxygen atoms which are all chiral. One diastereomer pre...

A Photoinduced dearomative nucleophilic addition to N-Boc indoles mediated by two-molecule organic photoredox catalysts such as phenanthrene and 1,4-dicyanobenzene with UV irradiation furnished 2-substituted indolines in moderate quantitative yields. Hydroxide, alkoxide, cyanide ions can be used a nucleophile provide 2-hydroxy, 2-alkoxy, 2-cyanoindolines, respectively. Both electron-rich -defic...